Glenn Beck says serious health problem made him ‘look crazy’

Conservative, Washington-born pundit Glenn Beck told his audience on The Blaze Monday that a mysterious health crisis “quite honestly has made me look crazy” but has now been cured.

The affliction dates from when Beck was a top-rated commentator on Fox News, when he made such charges as saying that President Obama was “a racist” with a “deep-seated hatred” of white people.

“It has baffled some of the best doctors in the world, it has frightened me and my family as we didn’t know what was happening,” Beck, sometimes in tears, told viewers.

“About five years ago . . .I had begun to have a string of health issues that, quite honestly, has made me look crazy because of them. We didn’t know at the time what was causing me to feel as though, out of nowhere, my hands or feet or arms and legs would feel like someone had just crushed them or set them on fire or pushed broken glass into my foot.”

“I can’t tell you how many nights my wife would sit in the light looking to the bottom of my feet to make sure there really wasn’t any glass in them.”

Beck said he has not come forward until now because of “personal reasons, business reasons and you name it.”

He was warned, initially, of a “traumatic brain injury” that would leave him dysfunctional within a period of five to ten years.

Beck eventually found his way to the Carrick Brain Centers in Irving, Texas, — “they do crazy things” — and found he was suffering from autoimmune disorder and adrenal fatigue.

“After months of treatment and completely changing the way I eat, sleep, work and live along with hormonal treatment and intensive physical therapy, I have reversed the process,” Beck said.

Beck was an object of local controversy five years ago, when Mt. Vernon Mayor Bud Norris conveyed on him the keys to the city.

The ceremony drew hundreds of protestors, and a banner telling the city: “Change the locks.”

Beck is now based in the more friendly political environs of Texas. Upbeat, he said Monday: “My brain is back online in a big way. I have received a clean bill of health.”